Brutalist organic mantelpiece

This 18th century French chimneypiece is made from sandstone and has its original Trumeau or upper piece. It’s a fine example of the Louis XIV style w...

Monumental chimneypieces as these are quite rare to find. The house owners which could afford a mantel like this often preserved it through many generations. This Baroque inspired pi...

A monumental 16th century sandstone Renaissance fireplace mantel. Finely sculpted with a moulded beam and colomn supports. Decorated with flower motives, guirlandes and cirkels. Lov...

A monumental 15th century sandstone Gothic fireplace mantel. Finely sculpted with a moulded beam and column supports.   

A large antique English carved oak mantelpiece in the Palladian style. With full rounded and fluted Doric columns, egg and dart mouldings and a carved ...

An antique French marble and gilt bronze mantelpiece of exceptional quality and large scale. After a design by François Antoine Vassé (1681-1736) for the Salon d'Hercule of the Palace of Versailles, France.  Made from the finest and richest coloured Breccia Violleta marble with superbly cast 24-carat gold gilt bronze mounts. The solid marble jambs with gilt-bronze Nemean Lion masks at the top, these are under an arched frieze with a gilt-bronze centre cartouche depicting the mask of Hercules wearing the Nemean lion pelt. Flanking Hercules are extremely well sculpted and flamboyant gilt-bronze cornucopias, also called 'the horn of plenty', a symbol of abundance and nourishment. Salon d'Hercule Beginning in 1724, work on the Salon d’Hercule recommenced. Louis XIV commissioned architect Jacques Gabriel...

An exceptional architectural element, this antique solid wood mantel comes from a Haussmann-style apartment in Paris. Probably dating from the second half of the 19th century, it emb...

Neoclassical Statuary Marble Mantelpiece A beautiful, detailed and finely carved statuary white marble fireplace mantel in Neoclassical style. The superb molded shelf with perfect egg and dart edge decor sits over a finely carved frieze which is delicately carved with a stylized hanging foliate design. This is centered by a tablet depicting a trio of scenes with putto in various roles; affection, peace and jealousness. The endblocks show a sprawling bloom above a tapered block decorated with the feathered ends of arrow. The jambs echo the finely detailed frieze with floral motifs and wrapping leaves at the bottom. The inner moulded opening is superbly carved lambs...